Thursday, February 7, 2008

That Random Website plans to give $500,000

That's right! That Random Website is now planning to give not $100,000, but $500,000 US!

So now if you buy slots in our database and a share of our traffic you can be rest assured that HALF of your money will be going to fight breast cancer. A portion of this considerable sum can be given to a charity of YOUR choosing, if you buy slots in our database. All buyers get to choose the charity that their money will go to, so get choosing!

Monday, February 4, 2008

ThatRandomWebsite.com, a traffic redirection and randomised homepage service, has pledged to give 10% of its revenue to help breast cancer charities. The website, run by a young entrepreneur living in Montreal, Canada, aims to raise at least US$100,000 for this cause.

ThatRandomWebsite is run by 25-year-old Briton David Atkinson from his apartment in Montreal, and works by redirecting traffic towards external webpages. Every time the website is opened a different page is shown - randomly chosen from a database of possible websites. This database is the backbone of the website, potentially holding one million such sites - and each of the "slots" that make it up is being sold for just US$1. So, purchasing slots in this database will mean that a proportion of ThatRandomWebsite's traffic will be redirected to a buyer's website. Up-to-date statistics are available on the site, showing how many hits each slot should currently expect per day, and how many slots are still left.

Not only is this a business solution in the form of cheap traffic, but it is an entertaining coffee break for any internet user. Like a window onto the World Wide Web, by showing a different internet site every time the site is opened or refreshed the user gets a quick sample of what the internet has to offer.

"Breast cancer is the leading cancer among white and African American women", and "every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with [it]" (source: breastcancer.org). "The lifetime risk for breast cancer in women is one in nine" (source: info.cancerresearchuk.org). Breast cancer is a more important issue now than ever before: the number of cases has risen since the 1970s, especially among younger women.

Of course, the entrepreneur also stands to make something from the website - what does he plan to spend the money on? "Well of course there is the student debt, but it would also allow me to take a full time French course. My girlfriend is French Canadian, and it would be really nice to be able to speak to her family!"

Monday, January 28, 2008

Justgiving.com donation page

That Random Website now has a donation page courtesy of Justgiving.com. Through them anyone can set up an online donations webpage to go with any sponsorship or charity event that they are taking part in. If you want to bypass buying any slots from us, and just feel like giving a donation straight to Cancer Research UK, then check out our donations page here.